Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also considered the recent growth in extracurricular groups on campus. Since the 1990-91 academic year, more than 35 new student groups have been formed...
...other obstacle is the site's astronomical growth. "It's gotten to the point where it takes three to four hours a day just to keep the site going," said Fallows. "We've got more business than we can handle...
...another recent victory, an environmental coalition forced MacMillan Bloedel, Canada's largest lumber company, to stop clear-cutting and to stay out of pristine coastal rain forests. The tactic that worked? Getting MacBloe's big customers, such as Pacific Bell (whose phone books were made partly with old-growth wood), to ratchet up the pressure...
...great majority of us, however, the latest news about the brain did little more than remind us of other ways we can screw up--only this time it isn't just diaper changing on the line; it's the emotional and intellectual growth of our newborns. Cathy Smith, my daughter's teacher at Sing 'n Dance, says lots of moms seem preoccupied with the social and cognitive development of their babies. More than ever, they're asking to sign up two- and three-month-olds to be in classes with six- to 11-month-olds, believing that their infants' cognitive...
...biggest spoils have gone to aggressive investors who own "zeros," which rise and fall about twice as fast as regular T-bonds. Zeros, up 9.3% in the third quarter, aren't as exotic as they sound. You may know them as TIGERS (Treasury income growth receipts) from Merrill Lynch or CATS (certificates of accrual on Treasury securities) from Salomon Smith Barney. Basically, a zero is a bond that pays no current interest and is sold at a deep discount to its face value. The interest payments are built into the price at which the holder redeems the bond when...